Re: FOSS being mentioned all the time I don't want to alarm anyone but a lot of people aren't programmers, designers, translators or want to be helpful in anyway. After all, it is just an operating system. A lot of people don't care about their OS.
If you go and start telling them that it's open and they can modify it anyway they want, I personally don't think they'd care too much. They just want it to work and not have to fuss with it. Re: Linux being advertised with it. I use to always mention Linux when talking about Ubuntu to someone that had never heard of it before. I soon realized that this was a bad idea when everyone got a glaze over their eyes and started to hum to themselves once I said "Linux". If you mention Linux, you have to explain first about Ubuntu, then Linux, then about distros, etc. It just becomes too much. Does Apple advertise that a Mac came from Unix or BSD or what it originated from? No. We should learn from this huge company that does marketing very well and stick with just Ubuntu. Just my thoughts. Andy Watson watson...@gmail.com watson...@msn.com On 2010-08-17, at 5:26 PM, Lisandro Vaccaro <lisandro.vacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sorry. I just hope there were more active projects on the list. > idk the wiki has a long way to go before it becomes a decent tool. > > Just for the record, FOSS has to be mentioned, always. There are a lot of > reasons for it, bust first of all, the OS is great but if it wasn't FOSS it > would just be an average, though very secure OS compared to Mac or Seven. > > That doesn't mean that it can't be said with a different set of words, like > for example "everyone is free to use it and improve it" which transfers not > only that is FOSS but also opens your way to the benefits of it. > > In the facebook page there are several mentions of FOSS but the word is never > written. > > "Be part of something amazing." > > "Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for > laptops, desktops and servers. Thanks to volunteers from all over the world, > everyone can use Ubuntu completely free of charge." > > ...Ubuntu is made for sharing, everyone can use it, change it and improve it." > > > > > 2010/8/17 Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com> > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:14 -0300, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote: > > I don't want to repeat the same things but unless we set these kind of > > things straight and record the conclusions somewhere, these > > discussions are meaningless, even if you two decided on one point or > > another, what are you going to do? Will anybody even know the > > discussion take place? You won't change the way all the sites, locos > > and users handle promotion and in a few weeks someone else will bring > > the issue back to the MK list. > > Would you mind taking on the job of minute taker? We have that new wiki > page to record this stuff and perhaps we need some editing and such, but > we could do with it recorded your right. > > > Also do you handle Ubuntu's page or anything? We are debating about > > things like if just talking could change the course of the whole > > Ubuntu community, yet there is no initiative to share the point of > > view with everyone, no initiative to tell everyone what it would be > > the right thing to do. It's just a little debate that will end up one > > way or another and will be lost on the list, again, until somebody in > > less than a month brings the same issue back, again. > > I thought we did? We are a part of the community and in essence control > a very small singular part of it. Of course we'd like to convince others > that are arguments are rational too, for that I use a blog on the > planet :-D > > If we have a good document, I could promote it to wider circles. > > Martin, > > > > > -- > Lisandro H. Vaccaro > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
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